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Finished the second Dream Park book in one night again - The Barsoom Project, Niven & Barnes

Again it has that mix of detective, fantasy, and science fiction, with some larger scale politics mixed in. Like, Dream Park demonstrated some of the power, Barsoom Project lets rip.
And that's why it's rather less comfortable, especially right at the end. ( Read more... )

So there was more about manipulation and twisted psyches in this one than the first one, more about the psychological power and the potential for abuse thereof, and so it was more uncomfortable. But interesting.

bad printing = made of lose

Fortean Times this month has a section in white letters on a black background. Which sounds reasonable but the printing isn't quite crisp enough to pull it off - makes the letters skinny fuzzy and pretty much unreadable. I mean with a strong light and a magnifying glass, maybe. And I don't think it's just my eyes. Probably. Just another example of a color scheme that must have looked fine on the computer.

It's going straight to my 'web page of woe! arrrgh!' overused routine of grrr.

I know people have lots of different monitors with lots of different settings, and I know the colors look entirely different on each of my laptops and my desktop, and I know some people have the brightness/contrast turned up a lot higher (sometimes when I have a headache the brightness goes down to single figures and I can still read it. One time with a headache I could read by the glow from the TV when it had a theoretically black screen. Old TV though.) So I have to assume that everyone who builds a webpage can see it. But really, black on white is classic for a *reason*.

And white on black only works on a nice crisp screen, not a fuzzy printout.


/rant